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Help Preserve Acadia National Park's Historic Structures

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By NPT Staff - August 20th, 2017

Friends of Acadia National Park is working on a fundraising drive to help restore and maintain many of the park's historic buildings/Friends of Acadia

Acadia National Park lovers embrace the park along Maine's coast for its magnificent scenery: granite summits, sparkling lakes, bold coastlines. And they love Acadia for its cultural treasures: world-class hiking trails, carriage roads with their exquisite bridges, and other iconic structures. In fact, it's the interweaving of natural and built landscapes that makes this place so special among national parks.

But many of Acadia's historic buildings are sorely in need of restoration to ensure their long-term survival. The Brown Mountain and Jordan Pond gatehouses require both interior and exterior renovations, including reconstruction of the wooden gates originally intended to protect the carriage roads from motorcars. And on Baker Island, the Gilley Family House and the Keeper's House have been closed to visitors for many years due to hazardous conditions; both need to be restored so that visitors can go inside for a more intimate look at the Gilley family's island life. With your support, Friends of Acadia will enable the park to protect some of Acadia's most important and iconic historic structures.

Be a part of this effort to preserve Acadia's history. Your gift will be matched by park funding to do even more to restore the beauty and integrity of these iconic landmarks. More than 70 individuals raised their paddles at the Friends of Acadia Benefit Auction to pledge their support for this project, but more are needed.

For more information or to pledge your support for these historic restoration projects, email [email protected]

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